Container and display carton



W. M. AND C. J. DOERING.

CONTAINERAND DISPLAY CARTON.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 20, 1917.

Patented Feb 7 1922.

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CONTAINER AND DISPLAY CARTON. APPLICATION FILED 00L 20, I917.

Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

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T 0 all whom. it may concern: V Be it known that we, WILLIAM M. DOERING and CHARLES J. DOERING', citizens of the United States, and residing at Cincinnati,

in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Container and Display! Cartons, of which the following specificationis a full disclosure.

Our invention relates to a combined container and display carton, adapted for shipping or retailing articles, such as hot water bags, and of being opened up into a selfstanding display device.

The object of the invention is to provide such an article of simple and cheap construction, secure as to container or package function, and attractive as to displaying the contained wares when opened up.

The instruinentalities attaching or securing the commodity in the container also serve as the support and display element in the converted carton.

' The features of the invention will be more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a part this specification, wherein Fig. 1 is a perspective view, ofthe container with one closing end removed.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the display carton, dotted lines indicating folded or container formation.

Fig.7 3 is a front formation.

Fig. 4; is an enlarged detail section on line elevation of the display 44, Fig. 3, showing the display panel as a separate piece attached to the container.

Fig. 5 is a detail front elevation of a modified form of display panel punched inwardly from the body portion of the container.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail section on line 66, Fig. 5.

The container comprises a rectangular box open at opposite ends, these ends being closed by telescoping end covers 1. The four corners 2, 3, 4, 5, represent scored folding lines for bending up from a flat blank, and capable of being opened up into a self-standing display device, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, sustained vertically by the Specification of Letters Patent.

-Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

Application. filed October 20, 191i. Serial No. 197,587.

slight angularity of the two end sections7,

and by a vertical angular wing 6 secured-to the back; of the container and scored to be bent flat, as shown by dotted line 6, when the device is folded in; carton form. .The outer sections 7 do not need to be secured when the carton is folded into containermodity support, may be a separate piece of cardboard, see Figs. 3 and 4: having a secshelf-like folding extension 9, or the panel may be cut out from the body portion 10, see Figs. 5 and 6, and folding inwardly on scored line 11. I We have shown the device as a container for and a display of hot water bags, miniation glued to the inside of the box, and a i ture, or commercial size, f and for uses of this character the panel is formed with orifices 12, serving to suspend bags, bottles, or the like, from the neck in attractive display array. Other articles may be secured to this panel, requiring differentattachment means, and we. do not desire, to be limited to the detail of attachment shown, or th character of wares displayed.

Having described our invention, we.

A combined display rack and container,

comprising a sheet of material. scored to provide an intermediate section, panel sections at opposite sides of said intermediate '7 sectlon, an end fiap foreachpanel section,

the end flaps folding at an angle to the panel section, roviding stays for supporting the structure in an open, upright position, said structure adapted. to be folded into an open ended box-like structure, with the end flaps overlying one another, and providing an end box wall and said intermediate section an opposite end box wall, a foldable back stay a on the rear side of said intermediate section, apertured merchandise sup-porting leaves projecting from the display face of one of said panel sectlons, the merchandise being adapted to be engaged through the our names, as attested by the two subscribapertures of said leaves for suspendingly ing Witnesses. V

' sustaining the same, and closure caps nesting over the ends of the foldedstructure to WILLIAM M. DOERING. hold the same in box form and to hold the 7 CHARLES J. DOERING. back stay fiat against the outer face of the Witnesses:

intermediate section. Y L. A. BECK,

In Witness whereof, We hereunto subscribe MILDRED SMITH; 

